From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15258 invoked by alias); 9 Feb 2007 16:17:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 15155 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Feb 2007 16:17:11 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:17:02 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HFYQk-0003el-4N; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:16:58 -0500 Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:17:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: DJ Delorie , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, newlib@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Updating top-level autoconf to 2.59 Message-ID: <20070209161658.GA13966@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , DJ Delorie , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, newlib@sourceware.org References: <20070111225346.GA1335@nevyn.them.org> <20070207193352.GA13757@nevyn.them.org> <20070208222020.GA2267@nevyn.them.org> <200702082254.l18MsOuR028641@greed.delorie.com> <20070209151558.GA7193@nevyn.them.org> <20070209153841.GA12038@nevyn.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-02/txt/msg00128.txt.bz2 On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:13:43PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > I see, though frankly I wouldn't consider switching from 2.59 to 2.61 too > much of a project. And certainly much less than doing the 2.13 to 2.59 > conversion at the top level. Of course in 2.61 there may be different > bugs than in 2.59, but I gather the new version is not meant to imply any > kind of revolution. Even if there were some subtle problems somewhere, > they should get sorted out as things go by stage 3. > > Or is it because of the new structure of install directories? There's simply too many directories. We'd want to upgrade all of src and gcc at once. And yes, there are some troublesome changes - like, if you don't adjust your makefiles, you get warnings about ignoring datarootdir. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery